My Lobotomy-Howard Dully (finished)

So I finished the book. I have to say this is one of the hardest books I've ever read, no question about it this book makes you think about things someone should never have to think about.
Honestly Im not even a parent and I couldnt imagne giving a 12 year old child a lobotomy. Seriously how is that even legal? This doctor preformed over 2500 lobotomies in his career! WTF he had a lobotomoble (thats what they called in it in the book) but the guy drove the country and gave lobotomies in clinics across the US for years. How does that happen? His last patient that he preformed on was a woman who he cut a brain vessel and caused her to hemerage and die on the table. He was 80(something) when that happened. Ummm excuse me really? Id say you shouldnt preform this operation at any age but 80(something) again WTF!!!
But I cant even tell you the things I felt for this little boy...this NORMAL boy who was subjected to this by an unloving terrible stepmother. There was nothing wrong with this boy other then his father was stupid for marrying this person and not leaving her when he was brought to this doctors' office and questioned about his son.
The end of the book which was writen after it was first published (like an update on things) was the hardest part for me to read. Because tests are run on his brain and the things they find are amazing and terrifying.
I want to write out this part of the book though because it hits home for me.
This is the end of the book, and he is talking about everyone that is invalved and how in everyones life they were all victims of what happened in their lives.

..."Just as they were all victims of what was done to them. Thats true for everybody, I guess. We are all the victims of what is done to us. We can either use that as an excuse for failure, knowing that if we fail it isn't really our fault, or we can say, "I want something better than that, I deserve something better than that, and Im going to try and make myself a life worth living."

So this book was great. At times very hard to push through just because of the thought of the detail he puts into what happened is crazy to me to even consider but all in all a great book and if you ever thought your life was bad at any time you should read this. Itll open your eyes like no other.